US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG SDI on Dec. 2 for "Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for diagnosing degree of deterioration of surge protector" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,287, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDI Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for diagnosing degree of deterioration of surge protector" was invented by Taehyoung La (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Yoonjoong Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for diagnosing a surge protector connected to a battery includes a first switch configured to open and close a line that connects the first line to the second line by being directly connected to one end of each of the first line and the second line, a second switch configured to open and close a line that co...